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LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

We are gratified to be able to do Assemblyman
L. S. Taylor, OF sacramento. justice. Misled by
the official list of committees as published by
the House, we yesterday spoke of Mr.. Taylor as
member of the Committee on Public Morals
the committee which approved bill to punish
opium smokers and the keepers of opium Joints,
but, with strange Inconsistency, reported against
a bill to prevent messenger boys-who are forced
by poverty to that hard vocation in most cases
being driven to serve in vicious places, and in
favor of a bill TO permit cities and towBs to Ii
cense gambling. Mr.. Taylor, we learn, is not
now on the committee, having been excused
from it. He is not in agreement with the miser-
able policy that proposes TO license gambling
and refuses to interpose the law to prevent the
hiring out of boys to run brands for procurers
and houses of prostitution, and hell-holes gem
orally.
Some people tcN gamble, therefore license
gambling. Some people will buy lottery tick
cts, therefore establish lotteries" That is the
argument of the new morality to be made prac-
invite the people of the East according to GER
tain doctors of reform. Then, upon the basis
of the same line of argument let it be decreed
as some people will smoke opium, therefore
license opium joints. Let us eat, drink and be
merry, for tomorrow we die.
s. B. d. relating to teaching in the public
schools of the State as part of the instruction
in physiology and hygiene the effects of mar
without a dissenting vote. Ii is now before the
Assembly, where it is hoped and believed it will
promptly meet with the same favorable consid-
Grafton. The bill only requires that the same
course shall be taught as is now adopted and
taught in so per cent of the schools of the state.
1t is sought to make the instruction uniform in
this regard, being in the best interests of the
rising generation OF the commonwealth.
The Assembly Committee on Niniculture and
Niticulture met last evening and considered
Knox's Assembly bill No. 3l9, amending the Act
creating State Board of Horticulture and pro-
yiding for the destruction of fruit pests. The
committee decided to report the bill favorably,
after reducing the amounts allowed for salaries
and travelling expenses to conform to those OF
the Senate bill on the same subject.
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The Present Irrigation Bill.

EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN The State is to be
congratulated on the progress made in the
matter of irrigation. The committee of
both houses have recommended Wright's
district bill back with some few amend
ments, and it will probably pass and a
starter will thus be made in the right d.
rection. The committee, however, struck
out Section Al OF the original bill, and l
think ii one of the most important features
of the entire bill. 1t provided that after
the formation of an irrigation district the
people of the district might, instead of en-
tering upon the construction of works,
enter INTO contract with other persons to
construct canals or other works This
required a vote of the district 1t will very
often happen that the people Of a district
will rather let some one else construct the
works and take water at given rate. The
section stricken out leaves it optional with
them to do so. If it would not delay the
bill in its way through the Legislature.
would ike to see the committee reconsider
the vote by which that section was stricken
out.
Ny long continued interest in this sub
ject is my excuse for trespassing on your
valuable space to make this suggestion.
w. S. GREEN.
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IT has remained for one journal in Cali
fornia to come out boldly in favor of lot
terry gambling. This particular species of
vice has everywhere and in all times been
condemned by decent people, as the most
pernicious known to man. In the enlight
eminent of this day, it is now seriously pro-
posed that this State and this city shall go
into the policy-shop business. Why? On
the assumption that dealing in lottery
tickets cannot be stopped. That is all
"rot" The intelligence that argues that
because some people uil gamble in lot
teries, therefore the State should itself be-
come dealer, insults the commonest in.
stincts of deeency The caliow intellect
that proposes such thing has no knowl-
edge, probably, of the days of demoraliza
ten and wreck when lotteries were thicker
in California than newspapers to-day.
Then, too, the assumption that home lot
teries will check the output of money to
those abroad, is not warranted by expert
ence. The truth is that the Havana,
German and French lotteries, and those of
the East, never didso thriving business
in California, before or since, as during
the period when lottery gambling was free
in this State, and every other door on every
business street of every town was plastered
ever with handbills of local lottery
schemes. 1t is well to be sure of the
premises before conclusions are drawn, and
nothing is better guide as to what is best
for the welfare of our people and the State
than the bitter experiences of the past.
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mental law, which reads: "The Legis-
llture shall have no power t. authorize
lotteries or gift enterprises for any pur-
pose, and shall pass lars TO prohibit the sale
in this State Of lottery or gift enterprise tickets,
or tickets in any scheme in the nature Of
lottery." In the face of this mandate we
cannot think it possible for any legislator
to refuse to vote for and hasten into law
bill that proposes to make this constltu-
tional clause fully effective. The present
law is inefficient. 1t is openly violated by
a number of prominent newspapers almost
daily, not one of which will dare to do so
if the alleged defect in the existing law
is cured. Practically, then, we have now
no law that makes effective the Penal
Code, and therefore the duty is incumbent
upon the legislators now assembled to sup
ply the need, and give vitality to the con-
stitutional mandate. 1t is not necessary
in this place to consider the griev-
Gus i'll of the lottery craze,
or point out its demoralizing
influence. The State passed through
one bitter experience in promoting lot
teries, and no man conversant with the
evil that resulted would for a moment
think of repeating the experiment. 1t
will be rendered how the evil grew until
the necessity became imperative on the
part of the people to rise in their majesty
and crush the monster. Then followed a
long period in which we were given rest
by the lottery fiend now, however, the
community is undergoing new assault,
and agencies are employed to corrupt and
demoralize, that should be the first to pro-
tect the people. 1t will not do to confess
that the law-making and law-executing
powers are unequal to the task of doing
battle with lottery gambling, or of making
vital the mandate of the Constitution. 1t is
not true that such laws as referred to can
not be enforced. On the contrary, they
have been in the past, and can be again.
Venality, it is true is deplorably manifest
in the community; but the very fact that
officers are corrupted to close their eyes to
infractions of the laws, or by terrorism are
so kept under COW that they dare not
attempt to enforce them, should quicken
the Legislature to enact measures to COM
pei performance of duty. We are assured
by officials that if the duty of enforcing
the lottery law is specifically placed upon
any one class of officers, thus giving them
the shield of express statute, there will be
no difficulty in the matter. We know,
! also, that if the Legislature should pass
the bill introduced by Mr.. Carr, the news
paper violators of the law viii not only
cease their practices, but will take lively
interest in the suppression of the swarms OF
lottery-ticket spectators, peddlers and
agents that now infest the State. 1t
comes to this then, that the houses are
put upon their mettle in this matter, and
if they neglect or refuse to act promptly,
will invite the odium of promoting and
encouraging lottery gaming.
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FIREPRooFING WooD.-A mode of rem
dering wood incombustible not generally
known is described as follows: Soak 27.5
parts by weight of sulphate of zinc, IL OF
potash, % of alum and II of manganic
oxide in lukewarm water in an iron boiler,
and gradually add IL parts by weight of GO
per cent. sulphuric acid. The wood to be
prepared is placed upon an iron grating in
an apparatus of suitable size the separate
pieces being placed an inch apart. The
liquid is then poured into the apparatus,
and the wood allowed to remain completely
covered for three hours, and is then air
dried The mode of application described
is we fear, serious obstacle to the general
use OF this process for timber employed in
building, especially as the rough timber,
before being worked or framed, could only
be conveniently treated in this manner. II
joists, ceiling beams and all joinery exposed
to fire could be treated after being fixed
with some chemical solution of proved re-
.istance to the action of flame, we believe
many architects would be found to employ
it.-The Building Neirs.
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NEWS OF THE MORNING.

EAsTERY.-Tne British steamer Wells
City was stove in by ice and sunk in New
York harbor yesterday THE Pacific Mail
and Panama Railroad have settled their
differences. So. Burglars attempted to rob
the Postoffice at Bound Brook, n. J..-.-..A
great ice gorge has formed at Lyons, Mich.
1.-THE Senate has passed the bill for
branch Soldiers Home west of the Rocky
Mountains......A Acting Secretary of the In
terror Muidrow has confirmed the home
stead entry title of Peter f. Brady in the
Bodie Land District......At fire in st.
Louis Wednesday several firemen were
buried and killed by falling wall......The
President has been requested TO act as arbl-
traitor between Nicaragua and Costa Rico
1.-THE International Range Convention at
Denver has adjourned. ..... District Assem-
blv No. 40 has ordered out all the employees
in the breweries and the stationary en-
gineers Joseph Plew, the murderer of
the Durham family. near Warsaw, Ind,
has been arrested. THE Presidents recep-
ton to the army and navy last night was
largely attended .....Silyer in New York,
l014.
FoRE1GN.-The split in the English Cabi-
net is threatening TO develop into minis
terial crisis.... Mrs. Henry Wood, the
novelist, is dead The English are max
ing the Paguans in New Guinea behave
themselves......D DR.. Halub, the explorer, his
wife and entire party, have been massacred
in Africa The Duke of Leinster is dead.
Four battalions stationed in Algiers
have been ordered to France.....Silyer in
London, 46sd.
PACIFIC CoAsr-The Napa mines shipped
473 TASKS of quicksilver last month";. The
Grand Lodge of the United Endowment
Associates meets at Napa next Tuesday.
An old man named Gribbi dropped dead at
Mariposa Tuesday.....S. C. Bates was Sc
riousl y injured at Fresno by falling from
the porch of 4 residence......T There have
been large sales OF land in San Luis Obispo
county 49,. Another cohabitor has been re
leased at Salt Lake......A large number of
Eastern tourists are taking in the Citrus
Fair at San JOSEF. The Railroad Commits
sion met at San Francisco Yesterday.
John Davenport, the counterfeiter, has been
sentenced to three years in the Peniten-
tiary at Portland, Or.
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A WONDERFUL INVENTION. - Several
prominent landowners of this county,
including w. q. Harp, Robert McHenry,
Isaac Ripperdan and DR.. T. E. lyman, who
went to Tulare county for the purpose OF
making personal inspection of the steam
plow, recently patented by Stockton Berry,
have returned and speak in terms of praise
of the patent. They report that the inven-
ton exceeded their brightest expectations.
The fuel used is straw, and one man with
team and wagon can haul sufficient
to keep the engine supplied. Mr.. Berry
has plowed more than forty acres
per day with his blowing machine,
aud the saving in horse-feed and labor is
very considerable. The machine travels
over rough and uneven land more easily
and with greater speed than the same
power represented in horses attached to
plows OF less capacity could attain. The
engine is similar to the Enright, with from
twenty to twenty-five horsepower. This
wonderful mechanical continuance is des-
tined to reyolutionize blowing. 1t is thor
oughly practical in its workings, running
smoothly without hitch or hindrance, and
the inventor, Mr.. Berry, has in it the
foundation of fortune of no small pro-
portions-Modesto Eve,sing Netes.
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SUPREME COURT LOCATION.

Judge Cope, an ex-member OF the Su-
preme Bench, a broad-minded and just law
yer, has informed the Legislature that it
is the opinion of the best legal minds that
the policy is unwise that keeps the
Supreme Court on wheels. Time is lost,
he declares, by shifting the Court from
place to place. 1t is the San Francisco
business that puts the Court behind its cal
endar, and the overtaking of which is hope
less there. We have frequentlypointed out
that to locate the Court at the Capital, will
enable it to speedily "catch up" with its
calendar. 1t will be an economical
change, and save to the State the immense
sum now paid for rent, the heavy travel
ing expenses of the Court, and the cost OF
maintaining three distinct Clerks offices,
with a large corps of clerical employees.
The local original jurisdiction forced upon
the Court at San Francisco would be
mainly avoided if the tribunal was located
here where it properly belongs. S. Nj
Wilson, of San Francisco, lawyer Of wide
and high reputation, and above any petty
influences, declares that the Court should
be located in Sacramento. He goes even
so far as to say-and he is a man who
measures his words-that the Constitu-
tional Convention really wanted the Court
located here, and that San Francisco pres
sure alone defeated the desire. 1t is safe
to say such pressure did not come from
members of the bar. Our recollection is
that the leading lawyers in the Conven-
ton were all convinced of the unwisdom
of making the Court a movable body.
Judge Cope says the Bar of San Francisco
wants the Court held at the Capital only.
1t is known that most of the members of
the Court hold the same views. This be-
ing true, we do not understand how the
Legislature can find excuse for continuing
the expensive and demoralizing movable
system. Certainly the Bar Of San Fran
cisco is capable of Judging in this matter.
When it certifes to the legislative body
that the movable system works badly, the
Houses ought not hesitate 20 abandon the
costly experiment.
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SHEEP RAIsING.-The breeding of sheep
has received much attention in Nevada
during the past three years, and sheepmen
generally have given the preference to
Merinos, which have been found to be the
best adapted for our climate. In Nevada,
sheep are raised without shelter of any
kind. and it is important, says the Stock
man, to raise those that have a fleece of
impact wool that will keep the wind and
snow out. and in this particular, the three
quarter blood Spanish Merino has been
most successful. However, since Nevada
has been called upon to supply the Cali
fornia markets with mutton, sheepmen are
beginning to cross with Shropshires and
other mutton breeds that carry the best
wool feeces, with results not yet fully de-
tsrmired.=Atistigl Reueiiic
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DIR. Robert Newton, late President of the
Eclectic College, of the city of New York,
and formerlv of Cincinnati, used DR.. VIM.
Halls Baisaal very extensively in his prac-
tice, as many of his patients, now living
and restored 10 health by the use CT this
Invaluable medicine, can amply testify.
He always said that so good remedy
ought nor 10 be considered merely as pat
ent medicine, but THAI it ought TO be pre-
scribed freely by every physician as SOW
ereign remedy in all cases of lung diseases.
1t c1res consumption.ard 81 pectoral COM
plants.
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THE GIRLS SrRIKE-A very curious strike
is that of the Lancaster, Penn, telephone
girls. The company had the lower window
panes painted TO prevent the girls from
looking out, but the girls by lowering the
upper sash continued 10 amuse themselves
in the old way. The managers then had
the lower sash screwed down, but the girls
considered this an Infringement upon their
rights and struck work. They are still
waiting the managers permission to look
out of the window.
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CARD OF THANKS.

VNHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE HOW
i ard Benevolent Association, of Sacramento
acknowledge the following donations for Jan
uary, 1887 Clothing. etc from Mrs Leak, Mrs.
John Klees, Mrs. Judge Holl, Mrs. Cunning
ham, Mrs J. ]. Brown, Mrs. Dennison, Mrs. s.
B. Smith, Mrs Carl Strobel Mrs. Judge Beatty
Mesdames Barber & Peeler, hats; California
and Unity Lodges, Knights OF Honor, provisions;
Capital Hotel, bread; Mrs. Kerlin's Bakery,
bread. By orGer of the Board.
r. DALE, President.
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NOTICE OF STREET WORK.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT 1T IS
~ the intention of the Board of Trustees of
the city of Sacramento to have Twenty-second
street. from Fl to NJ, improved by grading to the
official grade and constructing Oregon pine cross
walks and drainage culverts. Said improve
ments to be made In accordance with a resolu-
ton passed by the Board of Trustees on the eth
day of FEBRUARY. 1887, to which all parties
interested are referred for further particulars
feS-I5t JOHN RYAN, Street Commissioner
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The REooRp-uN1oN Is Me only papsr

The RECORD UNION Is the only pdpr Or
the coast, outside OF San Francisco, that re-
ceives the full Associated Press dispatches from
az parts Of the porld. Outside of San Fran
cisco il has no competitor, in point of mum
rs, in It's home ard general circulation
o,tgho,l. The coast.
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PLANTING FRUIT TREEs.-A larger area
than ever before is being planted to fruit
trees in this county, and among the vari-
cites being taken out is goodly number of
orange trees. We are glad to note this; for
upon our fruit production depends the fu-
ture success and prosperity of our county
and it proves that our people have new
er-failing confidence in old Butte'S re-
sources. Chico Chronicle.
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SAN FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

The paper is for sale at the following places
Il. p. Fisher, Room 81, Merchants Exchange,
who is also Sole Advertising Agent for San
Francisco: Grand aud Palace Hotel News
Stands; Market street Ferry and junction OF
Market and Montgomery street News Stands.
ss- Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
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The reconsideration of the vote on 4. B. Is,
whereby the 40th parallel of latitude was made
the southern limit for the establishment of
Normal school for Northern California, was
mediately after the reading of the journal.
AT $50 p NJ the House adjourned
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NOTICE OF STREET WORK.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT 1T IS
N the intention OF the Board of Trustees of
the city of Sacramento to have street. from
Twelfth to Eighteenth, improved by grading to
the official grade constructing redwood curbing
drainage culverts and Oregon pine plank cross
walks. Said improvements to be made in ac-
cordance with a resolution passed by the Board
of Trustees. on the 18th day of FEBRUARY, 1887
to which all parties interested are referred for
further particulars.
feS-i5t Holm RYAN. Street Commissioner
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HOOPS Sarsaparilla is characterized by
three peculiarities: LIST. the combination,
of remedial agents; ID, the proportion, Sd.
the process of securing the active medicinal
qualities. The result is a medicine of
unusual strength, effecting cures hitherto
unknown.
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JAMES WOODBU
GENERAL NOTICES.


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Sonoma county, Cal feSly
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
DEMOCRATIC INGRATITUDE.

FDS. REC0RD-UNION: MUCH SURPRISE
IL has been caused by the removal of young
SiOneman from the position of Engineer at the
state Printing Office and having seen an item
in your paper a few days ago, that on account
of being at outs with the State Printer was the
cause, take this means of letting all know the
true reason. The State Printing Office under
the present administration is apparently con-
trolled snd by outside influence, the de-
feated Lieutenant-iovernor & Co.. who were
and are the hackers of the present Printer aud
were the means of getting him the appoint
ment, and in payment therefor they pledged
him to remove certain persons young Stoneman
among the number. and 10 put in others OF their
dictation. On inves igation find that the little
word, . difficulty mentie ned, was only an ex-
cuse made use OF by the state Printer for having
removed him. The defeated Lieutenant-Goy-
ernor was a candidate for an appointment under
the past administration. and on account of not
receiving 1t was hostile to it, and took this
means OF getting back at il by striking at him.
The above is the only true reason and secret
of his removal, and is the cause of the only re-
quest asked of the present administration by
the former not having been granted, as both ne
aud his father have been good Democrats all
their lives, and the latter has given part of his
lifetime to the party, and it was and is thought
very stiarge that it was not granted, as it was
made a personal matter both with the present
Governor and Printer and as an act of courtesy
it was supposed it would surely be allowed.
feil-ltx IA FRIEND OF SLOVENIAN.
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